60 True Friendship Quotes and Images for Real Friends

Looking for true friend quotes on friendship to dedicate to your best friend? We have compiled a list of famous true friendship quotes, sayings, proverbs, captions (with images and pictures) to strengthen the bond with your true friends.

Editor’s Recommendation: Friendship Quotes

Friendships are rare enough as it is in this fast-paced world. Often, people we consider to be “friends” are simply people who happen to be around us a lot. However, true friends are so rare that you must cherish your genuine bond forever.

Don’t forget to check out our collection of loyal friends quotes to cherish your true bond.

Best True Friendship Quotes

  1. “True friendship is effortless.”
  2. “A true friendship is a journey without an end.”

    True Friendship Quotes
    True Friendship Quotes
  3. “Here’s to good friends: one of life’s greatest treasures.”
  4. “Only a true friend would be that truly honest.” – Shrek
  5. “True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne
  6. “Hold a true friend with both your hands.” – Nigerian Proverb                                                                                    true friend quotes on friendship
  7. “Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.” – Publilius Syrus
  8. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de la Fontaine
  9. “True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.” – St. Jerome
  10. “True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.” – Isabel Allende                                                                     

    Meaning of True Friendship Quotes
    Meaning of True Friendship Quotes
  11. “Want to see who your real friends are? Screw up and see who’s still there.”
  12. “The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”- Sarah Orne Jewett
  13. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

    True Friendship Quotes with Images
    True Friendship Quotes with Images
  14. “If you have one true friend you have more than your share.” – Thomas Fuller
  15. “A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.” – Heather Pryor
  16. “Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” ― Mandy Hale
  17. “A real friend is a person who walks toward you when everyone else is walking away.”

    Quotes About True Friendship
    Quotes About True Friendship
  18. “A true friend is forever a friend.” – George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie
  19. “A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb
  20. “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.” – Richelle Mead
  21. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas
  22. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
  23. “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson
  24. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
  25. “The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.”- David Storey
  26. “True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people together.” – Emilie Saint-Genis                                                                                                                                             

    Funny True Friends Quotes
    Funny True Friends Quotes
  27. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
  28. “A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.” – Lauren Conrad
  29. “A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein
  30. “True friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient; it’s about being there when it’s not.”
  31. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
  32. “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” – Nicole Richie                                                                                                                                           

    True Friends Quotes
    True Friends Quotes
  33. “A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.”
  34. “A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.” – Steven J. Daniels
  35. “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb
  36. “Friends will help us up when we fall down. If they can’t pick us up, they’ll lie down beside us and listen.”
  37. “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton
  38. “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Herny David Thoreau
  39. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley                                                                                                               

    Inspirational Quotes on True Friendship
    Inspirational Quotes on True Friendship
  40. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Luicaus Annaeus Seneca
  41. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer
  42. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  43. “If you wanna find out who’s a true friend, screw up or go through a challenging time… Then see who sticks around.” – Karen Salmansohn
  44. “A true friend is someone who will always love you—the imperfect, the confused, the wrong you because that is what people are supposed to do.” – R.J.L.
  45. Good friends care for each other, close friends understand each other, but true friends stay forever beyond words, beyond distance and beyond time.
  46. “A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.”
  47. “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”- George Washington
  48. “A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.”
  49. “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
  50. “A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” – William Penn
  51. “I have learned that the friends who hold your hand through the tough times and watch your soul twirl during the best, are the ones you should spend your lifetime dancing with” – Stacie.Martin
  52. “I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.”- Eric Thomas
  53. “True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
  54. “Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how ‘cool’ you are? Well, now you’re picking a friend for life.” – Renee Olstead
  55. “Ooh you’re the best friend that I ever had. I’ve been with you such a long time. You’re my sunshine and I want you to know. That my feelings are true. I really love you. Oh you’re my best friend.” – Queen, You’re My Best Friend
  56. “True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”- Baltasar Gracian
  57. “One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.” – John O’Donohue

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